Sentence examples for childlike man from inspiring English sources

A childlike man dances gingerly with an unseen partner.

Does she need this damaged, childlike man in her life?

Worley's lawyer, a former prosecutor named Thomas Hoopes, cast him as a childlike man who was tricked by sophisticated con artists into a check-cashing scheme.

I wonder what this unusual, childlike man was like when he was a child, and if he always felt like an outsider.

Simple-minded is the customary euphemism for people like Michal, the hulking, childlike man being held prisoner in "The Pillowman," Martin McDonagh's dazzlingly dark new play.

But for a charmingly childlike man so good at reinvention (who also seemed sanguine about his illness and called it "no big deal"), lamenting the past isn't an option.

There's no confusing the good guys (childlike men) with the bad guys (rule-enforcing women).

Marshall Chess describes the blues artists as childlike men who were interested only in Cadillacs and beautiful women, and who needed what he unfortunately describes as a "plantation owner" to look after their affairs.

More than a considered style and set of themes, Rollin's work projects a compelling pathology, at once obvious (masochistic fantasies of childlike men smothered by sexually empowered women) and hopelessly obscure (a desolate stretch of the Normandy coast, Pourville-lès-Dieppe, somehow connected to Rollin's own childhood, appears with almost comic regularity).

Like so many other American independent films, "Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire," which opens today at the Angelika Film Center (Mercer and Houston Streets, Greenwich Village), is a study in delayed development, in which helpless, childlike men in their late 20's are rescued and redeemed by domineering, motherly women.

In the painting competition, for example, Ryan did a childlike duck, man and tree, while Getzlaf painted da Vinci's "Last Supper".